Michael B Jordan failed with this one.. He was Great in Creed 1, and Creed 2 as well as in mostly every other movie I have seen him in, I am a fan of his But him taking on the Director role, along with the Story writing, made this Movie bad.
Reasons for this are, it was As if The writers and Michael B Jordan attempted to take something from Every other Rocky movie, and throw it in a pile into this movie.. For instance, We have only seen 2 Creed movies prior, Suddenly in this movie he is Retired already (something that happened in Rocky movies well after many fights/movies..). Now hes a Trainer (like Rocky), His fighter gets beaten and broken (like Apollo in Rocky) He comes out of Retirement to combat this guy, who suddenly is humiliating him on Tv (like Rocky 3) He beats him, then suddenly theres a respect between them (like Apollo and Rocky after their dealings in the ring) The whole movie was a rush through some ridiculous Timeline, and done horribly..
Something tells me, The next Creed 4 will have His friend Damien, who he made up with in Creed 3, suddenly taking on the Apollo role, as if Creed is Rocky in the other movies.. Being by his side, Helping him train..
There is no Originality to the story, and Michael B Jordan, lacks the Directing skill to skip through a sequence of Events in Time, without having the Audience feel there are gaps they missed.. It is Hard to put into words, but In a Rocky, or Creed (1,2) movie, although it was only 2 hours, you felt the movie covered all bases and skipped through nothing, even though IN the movies themselves the events were depicted as happening over the coarse of Months/Years. Michael Jordan failed to do this, so the entire movie felt like a stiched together bunch of scenes that had no feeling in them.
Highly recommend they Bring back Sylvester Stallone at least in an Advisory capacity, to make the rest of Any Creed series, movies worth waiting for.. Because at this Rate Creed 4 will have Michael B Jordan in makeup looking like hes 50 years old, training his daughter, and some bum punk on the street like Tommy Gunn, only to fight it out with him in the end, biting off ANOTHER Rocky movie..